[chef] native pre-reqs of a chef_gem?

[Wes Morgan < >]

What's the best way to install native pre_reqs of a chef_gem? For example, 
for the mysql2 gem that needs the Ubuntu package libmysqlclient-dev 
installed, how do I make sure that happens before the chef_gem is installed?


Are we back to doing something like this:

libmysql_package = package "libmysqlclient-dev" do
  action :nothing
end

libmysql_package.run_action(:install)

chef_gem "mysql2"


That would be too bad since chef_gem was created to avoid that very hack. :)

Wes